Olivia 👾
@dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app
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"Use this energy to write." 🇰🇪 SFFH Editor/Publisher. EIC: @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social
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If you were attending #WorldCon virtually and missed the panel on Translation, Language Barriers and The Limits of The Canon, the replay is now available!
dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app
Excited to announce I'll be at Seattle WorldCon (virtually!)

I'll be moderating the panel Translation, Language Barriers & The Limits of The Canon featuring @izom-chisom.bsky.social & @formerlykevin.bsky.social as the panelists.

Super excited as this is WTBAP's first WorldCon appearance!
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Below, details are listed:

- Date: Thursday, 14th August 2025
- Time: 7 PM to 8 PM EAT
- Panelists: Olivia Kidula (moderator), Chisom Umeh, Kevin Rigathi

A short description follows: Panelists discuss the challenges and opportunities in translating speculative fiction across languages, and how linguistic diversity reshapes literary canons and accessibility.
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hknorton.bsky.social
We should be able to reboot books the way directors reboot movies. There are some great ideas out there with shitty execution.
rachelfeder.bsky.social
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app
extremely hot take, I approve
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willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social
The past two months were filled with major milestones and unforgettable moments for WTBAP. We recap everything in our latest newsletter!

Read it here: willthisbeaproblem.substack.com/p/our-worldc...
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erinaceousphd.bsky.social
For people asking what cultural regalia he’s referencing, look up Efik/Ibibio traditional dress, particularly the dancers’ dress.

Nigeria is more than Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo.
bevismusson.bsky.social
Mr Nigeria. There's a lot going on here and I feel like I should hate it, but I really don't. I think mostly because he is selling the look so fucking hard that I cannot help but love it.
dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app
Way too much bullshit from an app that doesn't have drafts
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dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app
The Terrence Howard of SFF
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lexialex.bsky.social
This is what happens when you let war criminals get away with their crimes. They will come back and do it again. I feel a lot of guilt about this. My generation was there, we watched it all happen and at some point we just gave up and forgot about him. Big mistake.
declassifieduk.org
👉NEW -- Why Tony Blair governing Gaza would result in more war crimes

by Irfan Chowdhury

Soldiers who served under his command in Iraq got away with sexually assaulting prisoners, in scenes similar to Israel’s torture of Palestinians.
www.declassifieduk.org/why-tony-bla...
Why Tony Blair governing Gaza would result in more war crimes
Soldiers who served under his command in Iraq got away with sexually assaulting prisoners, in scenes similar to Israel’s torture of Palestinians.
www.declassifieduk.org
dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app
Denver needs like 40 years of PR to undo what this season of LIB has done for its reputation. How is it every single cast member 😭
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bigartthread.bsky.social
Works by Senegalese artist Omar Victor Diop, 2010s-20s, whose performative photography practice engages with European colonialist history and cross-cultural experiences within the African diaspora.
Photo of a young Black man wearing a long dark tunic and orange head wrap, holding a dodo bird, with an assortment of fruits and gourds around his feet. A large gold circle floats behind him over a black background. Photo of a young Black man repeated three times, all wearing a purple cloak and blue head wraps, posing in a cluster with brightly colored birds perched on their hands and flying around them, along with tropical flowers at their sides. Photo depicting the same Black man repeated several times, all wearing different suits and hats, standing together with serious expressions and hands in their pockets amongst green grasses and loose papers, against a black background. Photo of a young Black man wearing a pink tunic and colorful patterned over cloth and yellow head wrap, standing in a straight-backed pose with his hands up to his chest holding a yellow and orange running sneaker. He is set within a green oval, surrounded by an intricate floral pattern frame.
dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app
I didn't immediately get the twist in Peacemaker because in my experience it's not uncommon for the Western shows I watch to not have POC in the background lmaooo he could have been in the Succession universe for all I knew
dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app
just thinking about how the fatphobia & anti-immigration sentiments in Desperate Housewives walked so that Weeds could run
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itsmeio.bsky.social
Gaza fishermen able to fish for first time thanks to sumud flotilla distraction

they STILL FED MY PEOPLE. 🥹
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nanjala.bsky.social
Kenya based, South African author Zukiswa Wanner is one of the people who was on the Global Sumud flotilla and who have been detained by the Israeli army.
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smashfizzle.bsky.social
I say it all the time, but imma say it again: a lot of very book smart people lack the emotional education and communication skills that would allow them to generate the courage they want to embody in their work. They are incurious about their own emotional lives, and consequently, those of others.
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havenspec.bsky.social
Haven Spec Magazine is now open to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only!

We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and other folks whose voices must be heard!

www.havenspec.com/submit/
Haven Spec Magazine, Submission Page
Fiction and Poetry for the 21st Century!
www.havenspec.com
dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app
Every three weeks or so there's a thread on here that's like "you have to be my bestie before you sell me your book"... Congratulations I see nothing but 419 scams in your future
dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app
Omg what is this from? I cannot for the life of me remember 😭
dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app
thinking of a casual way of saying "hello I recognize you from the cult we were most definitely in together"